Waqas Butt
Biographic Data
| ID | 190898 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Waqas Butt |
| GIVEN NAMES | Waqas |
| FAMILY NAME | Butt |
| SIGNATURE | BUTT W |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Toronto |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1203-6839 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Life Beyond Waste
South Asian Urban Climates
This Interventions essay presents 14 stories of, and positions on, urban climates in South Asia. The authors analyze the terms 'mahaul,' 'mausam,' and 'aab-o-hawa' as critical concepts to conceptualize climate in its political, social, historical, atmospheric, ecological, material, sensory, and embodied registers. The stories connect concerns about broader structural conditions ('mahaul'); local and lived experiences in different temporal registe…
Between Work and Labor
If I Speak, They Will Kill Me, to Remain Silent Is to Die
The ethnic and sectarian divisions that were part of General Zia's (1977-88) political strategies in Pakistan were resisted not only through street protest and political opposition, but also in the realm of culture. In particular, poetry was a vehicle through which to express discontent as well as to mobilize the population. By offering an analysis of a number of poems and the biographies of the political poets who wrote them, this article offers…
South Asian Urban Climates
This Interventions essay presents 14 stories of, and positions on, urban climates in South Asia. The authors analyze the terms 'mahaul,' 'mausam,' and 'aab-o-hawa' as critical concepts to conceptualize climate in its political, social, historical, atmospheric, ecological, material, sensory, and embodied registers. The stories connect concerns about broader structural conditions ('mahaul'); local and lived experiences in different temporal registe…
Between Work and Labor
If I Speak, They Will Kill Me, to Remain Silent Is to Die
The ethnic and sectarian divisions that were part of General Zia's (1977-88) political strategies in Pakistan were resisted not only through street protest and political opposition, but also in the realm of culture. In particular, poetry was a vehicle through which to express discontent as well as to mobilize the population. By offering an analysis of a number of poems and the biographies of the political poets who wrote them, this article offers…
If I Speak, They Will Kill Me, to Remain Silent Is to Die
The ethnic and sectarian divisions that were part of General Zia's (1977-88) political strategies in Pakistan were resisted not only through street protest and political opposition, but also in the realm of culture. In particular, poetry was a vehicle through which to express discontent as well as to mobilize the population. By offering an analysis of a number of poems and the biographies of the political poets who wrote them, this article offers…
Between Work and Labor
Life Beyond Waste
South Asian Urban Climates
This Interventions essay presents 14 stories of, and positions on, urban climates in South Asia. The authors analyze the terms 'mahaul,' 'mausam,' and 'aab-o-hawa' as critical concepts to conceptualize climate in its political, social, historical, atmospheric, ecological, material, sensory, and embodied registers. The stories connect concerns about broader structural conditions ('mahaul'); local and lived experiences in different temporal registe…
Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies (2 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (1 work) · Art (1 work) · Asian Geopolitics and Ethnography (1 work) · Biology (1 work) · Demography (1 work) · Demography (1 work) · Elite (1 work) · Ethnic group (1 work) · Gender Studies (1 work)